Events

• Sordello
  Sordello
  Sordello da Goito or Sordel de Goit was a 13th-century Lombard troubadour, born in the municipality of Goito in the province of Mantua...
  
   composes the first sirventes
  Sirventes
  The sirventes or serventes is a genre of Occitan lyric poetry used by the troubadours. In early Catalan it became a sirventesch and was imported into that language in the fourteenth century, where it developed into a unique didactic/moralistic type...
  
  -planh
  Planh
  The planh or plaing is a funeral lament used by the troubadours, modeled on the medieval Latin planctus. It differed from the planctus in that it was intended for a secular audience...
  
  in order to mark the death of his patron Blacatz
  Blacatz
  Blacatz, known in French genealogy as Blacas de Blacas III , was feudal lord of Aups and a troubadour. Sordello composed a lament on his death, inviting the kings of his time to share and eat the heart of Blacatz and thus acquire a portion of his courage.He was the father of the troubadour...
  
  

Births

• Adam de la Halle
  Adam de la Halle
  Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu was a French-born trouvère, poet and musician, whose literary and musical works include chansons and jeux-partis in the style of the trouveres, polyphonic rondel and motets in the style of early liturgical polyphony, and a musical play, "The Play of...
  
   (died 1288
  1288 in poetry
  -Events:*Joan Esteve, troubadour, composes the pastorela "Ogan, ab freg que fazia"-Deaths:* Adam de la Halle , a French trouvère, poet and musician* Shang Ting , writer of Chinese Sanqu poetry...
  
  ), a French trouvère
  Trouvère
  Trouvère , sometimes spelled trouveur , is the Northern French form of the word trobador . It refers to poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with and influenced by the troubadours but who composed their works in the northern dialects of France...
  
  , poet and musician

Deaths

• Hélinand of Froidmont
  Helinand of Froidmont
  Helinand of Froidmont was a medieval poet, chronicler, and ecclesiastical writer.-Life:He was born of Flemish parents at Pronleroy in Oise in France c. 1150; his date of death is said to be 3 February 1223, or 1229, or 1237...
  
   died after 1229 - likely 1237 (born 1160), medieval poet, chronicler, and ecclesiastical writer in Latin
• Fujiwara no Ietaka (born 1158), Japanese Kamakura period
  Kamakura period
  The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura Shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo....
  
   waka
  Waka (poetry)
  Waka or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature...
  
  poet